-Analysis- Why Scotiabank is cutting jobs while earning billions: Don Pittis { * “Scotiabank, Canada’s third-biggest bank and 10th-biggest company, is cutting 1,500 jobs and scaling back on risk. Don Pittis says part of the reason is that it wants to be ready to cope with the uncertainties of the Canadian property market.” * —djo— }

CBC asks court to dismiss Jian Ghomeshi’s $55M Lawsuit { * – The CBC asks an Ontario court to dismiss former employee Jian Ghomeshi’s $55-million lawsuit, saying the claim is “without merit and an abuse of the court’s process.” – * In the U.S. this is what I’ve heard called the ‘scattergun technique’. Most lawyers use this ploy to try to con the judge and/or jury into believing that their opponent doesn’t have a real case. In too many instances it might mean the lawyers are afraid that going through the real legal process might lose them their case. —djo— }

WWI Canadian soldier’s remains identified { }

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President Obama looking thoughtful?

Wednesday: 05 November, 2014 – “Developing News” Flashing Headlines:

Republicans win midterm majority in U.S. Senate { }

Republican senator will push for early Keystone approval { }

Ottawa to table bill banning immigration by polygamists { }

CBC files papers asking for dismissal of Ghomeshi lawsuit { }

Obama says ‘I hear you’ to voters after midterm losses { }

Trudeau suspends 2 Liberal MPs over misconduct allegations { }

Liberal leader says party has duty to protect complainants { }

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Tom Brokaw’s Cell Phone dings.

“Offbeat”

Tom Brokaw’s phone interrups live election coverage: ‘Yes, I will remember to bring home the milk’ { }

Stephen Poloz comments on unpaid work raise ire of youth groups { * Advocates for young workers took Stephen Poloz to task after the Bank of Canada governor recommended that jobless university graduates beef up their resumes by working for free. – Speaking to a House of Commons committee Tuesday, Poloz suggested young Canadians and others struggling to find work should acquire more experience through unpaid internships or volunteering until the country’s hobbled job market picks up. He predicted it would improve over the next two years. – Poloz told the committee that when a young person asks for advice on getting through the tough times, he says, “‘Volunteer to do something which is at least somewhere related to your expertise so that it’s clear that you are gaining some learning experience during that period.”‘ * —djo— }

Chris Alexander to ban immigrants in polygamous, forced marriages { }

-8 photo slide show- Virgin Galactic SpaceShip2 crash site in Mohave Desert { * & It was announced on television news that investigators ruled out an explosion due to the new experimental fuel mix they were using. * —jim w— }

WestJet floats idea of thinner seats, and more of them { * & Hey.2 I didn’t think I could lose any more faith in corporations than I already have, but it looks like they’re getting seedier and greedier all the time. 🙁 * —djo— }

-New- Squirrels on steroids run wild in Canadian Arctic { * I wonder what an Arctic Squirrel drug pusher looks like. Or, do they have some kind of an arrangement with big pharmaceutical company’s salesmen? * —djo— }

-Live- Barack Obama doesn’t have to be a ‘lame-duck’ president { * Yeah, but if he had any sense, he’d never have wanted to be any kind of President. * —djo— }

Visa limits on Ebola-affected trevellers need to be justified: WHO to Canada { }

Social media helped place flags on Canadian soldiers’ graves in Italy { }

Pirate Bay co-founder faces estradition to Sweden from Thailand { }

‘Incompatible with Canadian values’ Immigrants in polygamous marriages to be banned { * Yeah, but, if being incompatible with Canadian values was a crime, most of the Conservative party’s members would be in jail. * —djo— }

Commons poised to suspend MP Dean Del Mastro in Wednesday vote { }

‘The beginning of the long dash’ indicates 75 years of official time on CBC { }

Victorious Republicans now focus their ambitions on White House { * Pay attention: Psychics and professional future projectors say there will not be a presidential election in 2016. * —djo— }

-Must Watch- Icons & Idols: Rock n’ Roll auction { * If they’re auctioning off Rock n’ Roll Idols, can I bid on Linda Ronstadt? I might not be able to treat her to top of the line everything like she deserves, and she might find it really creepy, but she’d know her songs really touched somebody, deeply. * —djo— }

-Must Watch- Sleek solar car designs on exhibit { * “Competitors from around the world show off their sola-powered vehicles afhead of the 2014 Atacama Solar Challenge desert race in Chile.” * —djo— }

-Editor’s Pick- Show us how you will remember { * “Be a part of special coverage on CBC News Network and online” – The show a photo of several veterans wearing their medals on Remembrance Day * —djo— }

-Editor’s Pick- Want a free trip around the world? { * “If your name is Elizabeth Gallagher, you are in luck.” – A young Canadian bought two tickets to circle the globe, then his girl friend broke up with him. It’s cheaper and easier for him to give the ticket away to somebody with her name than get the name changed, or follow other options. You’d need a Canadian Passport, and do not necessarily need to have anything to do with the guy who is offering the free ticket. * —djo— }

-Editor’s Pick- Deradicalization programs aim to ‘get ahead of the curve’ on extremists { * “Saudi Arabia, Denmark, Germany have comprehensive programs.” – But I still think that the right hand is creating the problem while the left hand is trying to strike it rich by coming up with expensive solutions that probably would only fix the last century’s problems and not even approach being effective against the new wave of angry young radicals who are really p.o.-ed about the way the world is treating them. * —djo— }

Three candidates for AFN National Chief { * “Ghislain Picard, Perry Bellegarde and Leon Jourdaine are the three official candidates in the running to become the National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, a position which Shawn Atleo resigned from in May amid some conflict.” * —djo— }

Saskatoon Bishop calls for day of study on missing women { * “Saskatoon Bishop Don Bolen is helping organize a day of study and reflection on the issue of missing and murdered Aboriginal women.” – But would one day make a difference beyond making the Bishop look good? * —djo— }

Facing suicide rates on remote First Nations: Why leaving may not be an option { * “Why don’t they just leave? That question was posted on our Facebook page in response to the story about Onigaming First Nation declaring a state of emergency last week after the 4th suicide this year, in their community of 450 people.” * —djo— }

{ The ‘First Nations Page’ is actually called ‘Aboriginal’ on the CBC web site, but some First Nations object to that title, so we renamed it here. —djo— }

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{ This is what greeted me this morning when I fired up my Twitter pages. ———djo——— }

“Hey, don’t look stupid- fix your map” —jda—

Harper’s Approach to Climate Change

“Everybody I know realizes that Stephen Harper is bad news for Canada, bad news for the world. What I cannot understand is how the bleep does he convince his ‘followers’ to buy his bull chips?” —djo—

“Income Splitting” = “We take what’s yours, good luck living on what’s left.” The Soundtrack should include Thunderclap Newman. “Because the Rev O Lution’s Now!”

“George Orwell Quote” = “If you draw your sword, you’ve been bought and sold by the dark side.” -djo-

“Conspiracy Watch” was busy last week. This is one of a dozen similar quotes they posted. I’m not sure whether this was the original word for word phrase that may have been edited since Ben Franklin uttered it, or not. Wouldnt it be weird if we learned that many nuggets of wisdom we cherish were uttered in a drunken stupor? -djo-

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{ We’ve been doing this because we believe the CBC may be more honest and more respectable than Media in the U.S.A., & not a lot of people in the U.S. may know that or have access to anyone who might point them toward the CBC & their web site. }

{ & again, these are not links. If you want to read these stories, listen to sound clips, or see any video -if there is any video- go to CBC dot CA/news.— & You can also find a link to the web cast of the most recent broadcast of “The National” the CBC’s ‘flagship nightly newscast’ under the “Must Watch” heading on their main page. — Thanks. — & Jim W convinced me to take credit for this, above. ———djo——— }

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Other Sources:

“Call out the instigators, because there’s something in the air-” NEVER Surrender! —djo—

Comcast Horror Stories

{ Um, most of the people I know would have told you to ignore Comcast if they were trying to double bill you. Don’t cave in to ice-holes – when you do, they win. When they win, they come down harder on their next victim. You aided and abetted their extortion operations. —djo— }

War Is Terrorism

{ “Anyone who would give up a little liberty for a little security will deserve neither and lose both.” —Benjamin Franklin }

{ “Any politician, police, military, or would be authoritarian of any stripe, who would capitalize on an event like yesterday’s in Ottawa: clearly does not deserve any respect at all, let alone the authority they demand.” — douglas j otterson }

{ Here’s a quote for you, not about yesterday and Ottawa but the philosophy applies: “The critical studies about #Ferguson in a decade will be fascinating. Because we are building this plane as we fly.” —deray mckesson }

{ “On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:‘Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it waveO’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.”

2nd verse of “Defence of Fort M’Henry” By Francis Scott Key }

Tweeted, “It is the legeslators who should go to Jail for this-” 70,000 dead fish in Ohio? —Frack Halliburton?—

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{ 6:15 pm EST — We are Ready to Rock and Roll — — & Thanks again for your help, Jim W, ( especially since he is still working today with a bruised rib, ouch! ) — And thanks to “—jda—“ ———djo——— }